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Yet Western activists seem to believe that the world’s worst-off people should be satisfied with inadequate and irregular electricity supplies.
China’s moves to strengthen its African ties have three objectives: to consolidate secure energy and mineral supplies, to curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent (which harbours six of the 26 countries with which it maintains full diplomatic relations), and to augment China’s burgeoning global authority.
Sudan, which supplies 7% of China’s total oil imports, has benefited from the largest Chinese investments.
Yet, although more than two billion people gained improved access to safe drinking water from 1990 to 2010, thanks to piped supplies and protected wells, this figure does not provide enough information on the agreed indicators.
India supplies Africa with computer-education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low-cost rice-milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.
The Last Pagans of IraqSINGAPORE – With US President Barack Obama belatedly ordering air strikes and humanitarian airdrops of food and relief supplies to refugees in northern Iraq, the world is finally taking action against the Islamic State.
Water supplies are erratic.
The UK’s supplies and money were running low, but Roosevelt knew that the US Congress would never simply loan Britain the money it needed.
Europe depends on Russian energy supplies, and European banks and businesses are highly exposed to Russia.
Given Europe’s dependence on Russian energy supplies, imports could not be cut off all at once.
Moreover, the EU should work to improve the flow of energy supplies across its internal borders, helping member states closer to Russia to compensate for the losses incurred by higher fuel prices.
Meanwhile, European countries should intensify efforts to diversify their energy supplies, which should include higher imports from allies like the United States and a significant increase in renewable energy’s share of consumption.
Coca-Cola supplies the cabins to traders who sell its products, just as it might provide promotional umbrellas to outdoor cafés in Paris.
And as one region in one part of the world designs a better way to manage its transport, energy needs, water supplies, or food supplies, those successes should quickly become part of the global knowledge base, enabling other regions to benefit rapidly as well.
Today, we need universities in all parts of the world to help their societies face the challenges of poverty reduction, clean energy, sustainable food supplies, and the rest.
Countries such as Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Kenya, as well as Uganda, are requesting assistance for emergency drug supplies.
Likewise, under Abe, Japan will develop its official development assistance, seek to secure stable energy supplies, and pursue permanent membership of the UN Security Council.
Along with more mouths to feed, stresses on food supplies will include conflicts, economic volatility, extreme weather events, and climate change.
With global water supplies already strained, the shift to a water-smart approach to energy could not be more urgent.
Unfortunately, no one, certainly not in Asia or the United States, seems willing to bite the bullet and help engineer the necessary coordinated retreat to sustained sub-trend growth, which is necessary so that new commodity supplies and alternatives can catch up.
Yes, and that eventually happened with energy supplies in the 1980’s.
Now they must be re-organized to function under the new General Staff, which is already planning its own exercises with all their costs for transport, fuel, and assorted supplies.
With roughly 15% of global electricity supplies produced by nuclear plants, energy-saving measures could go a long way toward diminishing the need for them.
Law-enforcement efforts would also need to be increased to detect illegal supplies and break up laundering rings.
Even if farmed supplies from South Africa satisfied a portion of the demand globally, it will not alter demand among consumers drawn to wild product, or those who are indifferent about the source.
Beyond the economic and human costs of wars fought to maintain reliable oil supplies are the tremendous costs – which are set to rise substantially in the coming years – associated with human-induced climate change.
Such foreign-exchange operations among G-7 central banks have fallen into disuse in recent years, partly owing to the theory that they do not affect exchange rates except when they change money supplies.
Water supplies in many refugee camps, in both Jordan and Lebanon, have been cut to a minimum – a decision that affects millions of people who are already enduring scorching temperatures.
As global water supplies become increasingly scarce, more crops will become “high-value.”
At the same time, we must face the facts: fossil fuels will not last forever, and some supplies may dwindle soon.
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